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You most.certainly can 'fit' a bristlenose in a 29 gallon. It would live it's entire life in there happily. They only get 4 inches long....give or take a half inch....

Get a bristlenose = problem solved. My lights are on 16 hours a day. Blue "moonlight" all night. Pleco's devour the algae. Win win.

For the record... I had mine with livebearers and there were no issues. My krib wasn't interested in the fry.

Folks can.argue filter.specifics, but you put them on the tank for all the same.reasons. Chemical.filtration via carbon, mechanical filtration, and.with some you have biological filtration. Another function of your filter is water aeration. 10 gallons.that get overstocked are very tricky to...

I have had lots of.brands. Currently, I have a Tetra 10 gallon, a Marineland 38 gallon bowfront, a Marineland 75 gallon rectangle and an unknown brand 30 gallon breeder tank that I resealed myself to avoid any worries about leaks. They have all held water very well for years now. If money is...

That was a very accurate description.of.how this addiction happens. You start off innocently enough, with a modest tank. Then you find you like some other things that may not work out, so you get a second, usually larger tank. Well, then things go as they do and.you wind uo with another...

From my crash course of what those particular aquariums are designed and marketed as, they are a UGF type filtration system. The substrate they provide (looking at images online) looks.to be substantial, and porous. This will have the added benefit of beneficial.bacteria colonies having...

Depending on the size of the chunks of wood, the fastest way to remove tannins.is.to boil the wood for a bit. It will pull them out in a half hour or so of boiling. All my wood I boiled for 2 hours. Some say it weakens the wood, but I think that depends on what the wood is. If it is dense...

Do more than.a.10% water change. Get that tank.water clean. This is your first line of defense when it comes to treating most anything in the tank. Fin.rot is one that benefits from essentially a water changeover, done over time. 120 gallons is a decent size tank,.but I'd.say.do some 30%...

Take them to your local.fish store and.trade them.in.for something you do want. When I do trimmings of my plants, what I don't reuse in other tanks, I take.to.my lfs and.they give me cool fish or other plants to expand what I have in my tanks. They can easily sell them for a profit...

Welp. Today, I get off work, and I walk by the tank, and.the peacock, who has a crappy lookin eye, like a.slime.coat or something globbed on there. But the swelling has gone.down, and he swam up to the corner there looking for me to.feed him. He hasn't.ate.for almost a.week. He ate...

If the water is kept.clean, they will grow back. It takes a long time.to get back to flowing. Months. Depends ona.lot of variables....

Put an air stone across the rear of the tank and.place the heater next to or.behind the bubbles. This.circulates the warmed water better, and.decreases heater need. Or you can place it next to your pickup tube for your filter. Either way, it circulates the water better, thus reducing heater...

Big stones fail faster than small ones. Get the pucks, and place them under the sub in random spots and use a valve and set them to recreate the bottom of a lake. Gives a more authentic feel.

That is either bad genetics, or ammonia poisoning. Since it has sudden.onset, I would suspect the latter issue. Your feeding schedule is a bit much as well. Cut that feeding down to once a.day for a.while. See if conditions.don't improve. Unfortunately, every time I have seen that, the fish...

That substrate/gravel may decimate their barbels, making it difficult for them to find food. Sharp rocks tend to cause issues with cories. Not saying this is the case, as one of my tanks has that glofish color crap, but the stuff you have has actual sharp edges that can injure their barbels...

Limit feeding of the tank. This will not work in a day or 2. There is plenty of food in there, so they are going to multiply. Cut a slice of cucumber or zuc and get that on the bottom of the tank overnight. In the morning you will have a bunch on it. Take it out of the tank and do with as...

As.long as the tanks.are.established and the fish ain't been overfed, they will be fine. I have 2 tanks that have not had a water change in over 2 years. They will be ok.

My point is....you do not need a.cycled tank.for a hospital tank. You are the cycle. Do you really have time to wait for a tank.to cycle in a fish emergency? Do you want to add.to your tensions by keeping a tank full of water turning over with nothing in it, just cause ya like to toss money...

Have you ever seen the sun hit your aquarium? I promise you there ain't a light on the market that is "too bright". Let the sun light hit your tank and.you'll see just how dim and inefficient your aquaria lighting really is. That being said.... Get whatever you like. There are plenty of...

Why transfer media? If you use an anti-bacterial treatment, you'll be killing off whatever you add to the tank immediately. The world has a.dominant misunderstanding of antibiotics. They do not discriminate. They may be more.effective for this and that strain of bacteria, but they attack all...

Just use an internal filter for water movement/aeration. You'll not use carbon due to the nature of the tanks purpose. No gravel. Just a filter, water,.light, heater and fish. This is not meant to be a show tank. Parasites hide in gravel. Carbon takes up medications. You shouldn't be...

Thats TDS. It doesn't reflect hardness, which is mag and cal, and a much smaller scale. TDS is just how much stuff is.dissolved in the water itself, without saying whatever it is. It is much different than what comes out of the tap. I won't be moving the peacock to a hospital tank. I...

We have already covered my tank.maint in several areas on here...haha. Found my TDS reader from an.old Zero Water filter thing I used for a short time, until it gave me metal mouth, so I stopped using that contraption. It does a great job at making the water zero TDS, but thats not good for ya...

No matter what I do, this 75 hits me with an issue. The difference this time is only 1 fish is affected, so far anyways. It's the same fish I added just before I lost my severum. I think this fella is part of, if not the, issue on why I lost them other fish. It's my peacock. He has pop eye...

Freshwater dips work great for treating itch in marine fish. You do need to treat the entire tank, but, to treat the fish and.provide it some.relief in the mean time, you cando the freshwater dips. I wouldn't leave them in there longer than 15 minutes however. Just watch the fish. Make sure...

Found a carbonized sponge stuff for $6, that, in theory, can be made into several months of filters for mechanical, and chemical filtration....... Kinda a waste of time. May have to double up or something. Is firm until it hits water, then it just goes all floppity..... Science evolving.

They do that. Sometimes they'll be really active for a while together, others they will just kinda park somewhere solo. I have a similar sub. Their barbels will be ok. Sand could be better, as the food just sits on top, but gravel they dig through. Just keep an eye on it. It's probably...

Glofish danios or barbs. There are more than just tetras. I've not had any issues with my tetras, but the danios are pretty neat. They stay pretty small as well...maybe 1-2 inches.

Yea, I thought about getting some bulk filter foam and.making a chunk for that filter. If it works out good, it's a good thing. Renewable, and I'm not locked into using carbon. Matter of fact, I think a.trip to the fishie store is in order. I got a few other filters I can do it to ifn it...

Perhaps I have been.wasting money on filter cartridges for this filter mang.... I took out the super.crudded up cartridge the other day, intending to buy more, and low and behold the tank.seems to be better! Water is usually always clear, as is the glass and ornaments, but, the fish seem...

If you have enough hiding spots, they will be fine. Some may become food. It really depends on what you want to do. At first, you want to save them all. When you have 300 little.fishies a.few months later, you learn why nature do what it do...

Black mollies are actually algae eaters as well. They do a pretty good job even. Get a small pleco. A bristlenose. It will take care of your issue, and be a neat addition to your tank.

I would still.figure out what happened. Temminikii are usually pretty damn hardy fish. They can survive in a lot of.environments, so, there is somethin goin on in that tank. For the sake of the other fish, do a large water change and get them.levels down.

I will readily admit that I did not read this entire thread to this point. Maybe this has been.covered, maybe not. Do it. I don't any reason to not add.the fish. The flip side is understanding that overstocking a tank can be done, but you'll need to pay more attention to your water...

Shrimp are scavengers. They will eat just about anything edible they can find. The trick is, do the pellets dissolve? Or do they stay pellets. Bearded dragons aren't water critters, so some testing is in order. Put one in a cup of water and.see what it does. If it dissolves, drop one in...

I have combined both many times with no ill effects. I tend to slightly under-dose a bit, meaning instead of 1ml per gallon, maybe .75/.8ml per gallon, but even still, never seen a harmful effect from it. Just bubbles and healed fish.

Plecos are omnivorous. They actually prefer a little protein in their diets. This is why they stray. Why work for food if it is just given to them? I don't have this problem. The only issue I have with them is the spaces they cannot get to. My common is almost 4 years old now. He keeps...